Social Costs of Pornography (an article)

[mdgspencer]

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[TheTrueCentrist]

Very much lacking in any meaningful conclusions. For example:

I should add that while male children are more likely to become addicted to pornography than are female children, female children can get wrong ideas from pornography about what is expected of them or about how to please a boy.

How much more likely? How common is addiction in the general population? Have the rates increased or decreased over time? I doubt the author knows.

It is usually the husband who becomes addicted to pornography. This addiction can negatively affect (destroy) a marriage in a number of ways. A husband may lose sexual interest in his wife; he may act out his perverse or violent porn fueled fantasies with his spouse; or he may choose instead to act out his porn fueled fantasies with a prostitute(s).
He may also spend tens of thousands of dollars feeding his addiction. Even if the addiction doesn’t destroy a marriage, it can cause the innocent spouse great pain.

The author is right, that *would *be a problem if it ever happened. Does this happen? How common is it? The author doesn’t say.

He also would have us believe two contradictory ideas. First that

There is evidence that many young men would prefer to masturbate in front of computers than to spend time with a young woman. See, e.g., D. Amsden, “Not Tonight, Honey. I’m Logging On,” N.Y. Magazine, 10/20/03; N. Wolf, “The Porn Myth: In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites – It turns them off to the real thing,” N.Y. Magazine, 10/20/03.

and second that

The other extreme is to ignore the mountain of evidence showing a link between viewing pornography (more accurately, addiction to pornography) and violent sex crimes

In other words, he wants us to believe that men who view porn are less interested in sex and more interested in sex simultaneously . Also, his “mountain of evidence” is evidently a broken link to an anti-porn website.

Lastly, he ignores the research that shows porn actually leads to a decrease in sex crimes.
physorg.com/news187448961.html
sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.htm